• Reduce by 25% the administrative burden on farmers and agri-food businesses by 2013. • Review the overall number of Government departments by 2011. • Provide a network of one-stop shops to improve access to DARD services by 2011. • Establish a Library Authority and an Education and Skills Authority by 2009. • Introduce a single telephone number contact point for public services by 2009.

And the key goals

Key Goals

We will deliver more efficient and effective public services and bring Government closer to the citizen by:

1) Delivering 5% efficiency savings on administration costs each year for the next 3 years for all Government departments. 2) Delivering 3% per annum efficiency savings on departments’ resource budgets and using the Performance Efficiency Delivery Unit to drive higher levels of savings. 3) Generating an extra £1.0bn of capital realisations by 2011 to invest in our infrastructure. 4) Modernising the structure and powers of local government by 2011. 5) Consolidating and streamlining 70% of Government department and agency websites by 2009.

The Northern Ireland Executive’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is quoted in the BBC report

“This place is truly under new management – and who would have believed how far we have come in so short a time.”